My top ten albums of 2009
10. Obits – I Blame You
The chaps from Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes’ new band… spiky and surprisingly poppy, with a nice line in surf-guitar-meets-abrasive-noise.
9. The Flowers Of Hell – Come Hell Or High Water
Woo, this is pretty! It sounds a bit like all the lovely little instrumental bits in Spiritualized’s best stuff.
8. And [...]
Katie Jane Garside, Modern Art Oxford
Katie Jane Garside from Queen Adreena played at Modern Art Oxford a couple of years ago – I’ve just found this picture, in which I caught her between songs, in a rare moment of not being right in the audience’s face.
Free compilation albums to download
This week I’ve been trawling the internet in search of exciting new things to keep on my computer and listen to, so I thought I’d share this list of free albums for download, especially since a few labels have been in especially generous mood in advance of SXSW.
Check the links below and get yourself some [...]
Four Tet interview
Diskant.net are running an interview with Four Tet I did in 2005, just after the release of Everything Ecstatic, for the Audioscope event programme. Here’s the text in full…
AUDIOSCOPE is just one date on Four Tet’s biggest tour yet. Stuart Fowkes caught up with Kieran on the eve of the tour to talk about charity [...]
Jamesphoney & Jamesreindeer – Rough Tongue Surfaces
An admission. While listening through to this record in iTunes, your reviewer didn’t notice that he had the shuffle function turned on. When, instead of track two, a track from Flying Lotus’ excellent Los Angeles came on, it took fully three minutes to realise my mistake. All of which is in effect high praise for [...]
Hauschka – Snowflakes and Carwrecks (Fat Cat)
Well now, this is an interesting treat. Hauschka, known by his mum as Volker Bertelmann, is a Düsseldorf-based composer whose previous output has involved messing about with the innards of his piano to distort or treat its sound, doing away with your preconceptions that you’ve heard everything a piano can do. As far away from [...]
